On 12/15/05 8:16 AM, "Scott Reynen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it doesn't seem to me that using > alt for machine data follows the humans first principle The idea is to use the alt for the human readable text version of what is in the image, sorry I wasn't clear about that. > because > imageless humans are reading alt tags. Right. > As a human, I'd hate to be > reading something like this in a screen reader: > > <img class="bday" src="today.png" alt="20051215T080000Z" /> Indeed. > And my first inclination would be to give imageless humans something > more readable by putting the machine data in the title attribute > instead, e.g.: > > <img class="bday" src="today.png" alt="December 15, 2005" > title="20051215T080000Z" /> > > This is sending three different types of data to three different > types of readers. AFAIK this is the first we have discussed using the <img> tag to convey three pieces of information like that. > src is for imaged humans, alt is for imageless > humans, and title is for machines. I understand the drawback of > further complication, but the alternative seems to require authors to > choose between usability and microformats. Here is my question: Have you seen any examples on the Web where people are publishing date-time information as an image? Thanks, Tantek _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss